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A vision of Britain through time
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PURTON, a village and a parish in Cricklade district, Wilts. The village stands on an eminence near the Swindon and Gloucester railway, 1 mile W of the North Wilts canal, and 4¾ N W of Swindon; and has a station on the railway, a post-office‡ under Swindon, and fairson the Tuesday before 6 May and the Friday after 19 Sept. The parish contains also Braydon hamlet and Cricklade workhouse. Acres, 7, 878. Rated property, £10, 157. Pop., 2,087. Houses, 453. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £690.* Patron, the Earl of Shaftesbury. The church is a handsome edifice, with two towers and a spire; and contains monuments of the Maskelynes. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with £17 a year, and charities £80.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Purton AP/CP Cricklade and Wootton Bassett RegD/PLU Wiltshire AncC |
| Place: | Purton |
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